How to ensure your truly extravagant four-day wedding comes to a fairytale end…with a dusting of Disney magic, of course.
The nuptials of the year so far, between Pretty Little Thing’s billionaire founder Umar Kamani and his model wife Nada Adelle, finally came to a close on Monday, after a long weekend of celebrations in the South of France that are estimated to have cost the couple millions of pounds.
Guests at the bash, which included guest musical appearances by
A British boy who said he was ‘kidnapped’ and taken to a ‘spiritual commune’ by his mother and grandfather six years ago reportedly told the man who found him after a four-day hike across a French mountain range that his mum ‘was a little crazy’.
Alex Batty, from Oldham, Lancashire, was just 11 when he did not return from a holiday to Spain with his mother Melanie, then 37, and grandfather David, then 58, in 2017. His grandmother and legal
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A four-day workweek sounds great in theory. But what would it take to actually make the practice sustainable?
First, here are four new stories from The Atlantic:
Fewer Hours, Same Workload?
The idea of a four-day workweek sounds enticing: Work efficiently over a
Junior doctors will take to picket lines again next month, with tens of thousands of appointments expected to be cancelled.
The British Medical Association (BMA) is coordinating the four-day walkout in England, which will run from 7am on Friday August 11 to 7am on Tuesday August 15.
It marks the fifth strike by the medics since March.
The union said junior doctors, many of whom earn more than £50,000, ‘are not going anywhere’ in their bid for an inflation-busting 35
The results we’ve all been waiting for are finally in – a four-day working week really does work, according to a major new study.
For a six month period starting in June 2022, 61 UK companies reduced their employees’ working hours by 20 per cent, with no changes made to their salary.
Staff who took part were surveyed throughout the trial, and 71 per cent reported lower levels of burnout than before, while 39 per cent said they were less
The Maryland State Capitol building is older than America. It is the only state capitol to have also served as the nation’s capital; in the country’s earliest days, Congress met in its chambers. To work in Annapolis is to operate in the shadow of history. So maybe that explains why, 246 years into the American project, one state lawmaker sees his four-day-workweek bill as carrying on in the tradition of the ideals of the Declaration of Independence. That, or it’s
